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About this book
Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly "low-tech") as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of "remote control" related to education, organizational design, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, drones, and even binge-watching on Netflix. In line with a systems view, the collection takes up a media ecological view. This work will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in communication, new media, and technology.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Brief History of Communication and Control in Animals and Machines
- Four Dimensions of Control
- Panic Button
- A Waiting Room Without Walls
- Chained to the Dialer, or Frederick Taylor Reaches Out and Touches Someone
- Chatbots in the Metropolis
- Knowledge Management Systems and Remote Control
- So Many Choices, So Little Choice
- Educational Policy and Political Action as a Mechanism of Remote Control
- Mobile Geospatial Search and the Limits of Knowledge
- Reflections on Organization, Emergence, and Control in Sociotechnical Systems
- Mediascape as Battlefield
- Remotely Piloted Vehicles, Ubiquitous Networks, and New Manifestations of Remote Control in Open Society National Security Environments
- Remotely Human
- Appendix
- Index
- About the Contributors